This design is great for using with a panoramic head because, when shooting panoramas, it's imperative that the horizon is level.

这对全景云台的使用而言是一种非常出色的设计，这是因为在拍摄全景时，务必得保持画面的水平。

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Google has also overhauled the photo experience and added Photo Sphere -- a 360-degree panoramic shooting mode that captures everything around you.

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Fortunately for them, assembling all that data back in Mountain View was a far less rigorous task: Google engineers use their mapping software to link the photos to their shooting locations and string them together to create the panoramic paths users walk through.

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